Women's Health

After a healthy live birth, interpregnancy intervals shorter than 18 months or 36 months or longer were associated with an increased risk for subsequent spontaneous abortion, according to cohort study results published in JAMA Network Open.

Past-year Pap smear testing rates were lower in 2022 than in 2019, highlighting the need to increase screening access, especially in rural areas, to prevent cervical cancer, researchers reported in JAMA Network Open.

Mode of delivery did not affect self-perceived sexual life satisfaction overall or at any time postpartum, according to cohort study results published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Metformin exposure during pregnancy was not associated with adverse childhood neurodevelopmental outcomes up to age 14 years, according to a systematic review and meta-analysis published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Infants born to mothers vaccinated against COVID-19 during the omicron wave had decreased risks for preterm birth and adverse neonatal outcomes, according to results of the INTERCOVID-2022 study.

On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 9-0 that access to mifepristone for medication abortion remains legal including rules adopted since 2016 loosening original dispensing requirements and gestation limits.

Living in the most deprived neighborhoods was associated with increased breast cancer mortality among white, but not Black, women, according to a cohort study published in JAMA Network Open.

Despite better representation in drug trials in the past few decades, women continue to be underrepresented in trials assessing high-risk medical implantation devices, according to a systematic review published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Worldwide, mean birth weight at term has increased by more than 7 g each year — a total of about 1 lb — since 1950, according to a systematic literature review published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

For years, cystinosis — the rare, inherited and life-long condition caused by abnormal buildup of the amino acid cystine in the body — was considered a fatal pediatric disease.